A quantity of jade zhang-knife (with a pointed tip) with characters in red on them were unearthed from the Shang tombs at Liujiazhuang village in Anyang in 1985. This paper makes a detail introduciton on the materials...A quantity of jade zhang-knife (with a pointed tip) with characters in red on them were unearthed from the Shang tombs at Liujiazhuang village in Anyang in 1985. This paper makes a detail introduciton on the materials and discusses the calligraphy of the characters and the function of the zhang-knifes. It is believed that the characters in red are one of the three types of the calligraphy of the Shang Dynasty, the others are those of oracle bone incriptions and inscriptions on bronze vessels. It further believes that the brush writing is the foundation of the calligraphy. The Jade zhang-knife is both a ritual jade and a burial jade and is connected with the status of the tomb owner.展开更多
Since the year of 1928,generations of archaeologists have carried out many times of large-scale excavation in the palace and ancestral temple quarter at Xiaotun,and the abundant achievements have provided key data for...Since the year of 1928,generations of archaeologists have carried out many times of large-scale excavation in the palace and ancestral temple quarter at Xiaotun,and the abundant achievements have provided key data for the judgment of the Yin Ruins as remains of the late Shang capital.But because this quarter as the core city is very great in size,the previous excavation covered only a small part of its,and a series of problems remain unsettled.In 2004 to 2005,in coordination with the application for the Yin Ruins to be included in the list of world cultural heritage,the Anyang Archaeological Team made an all-round prospecting in the area of the Yin Ruins Museum.In addition to resurveying and confirming the location and condition of previously known building-foundations,a lot of new discoveries were brought about through the work,such as the revelation of several dozen spots of rammed-earth foundations,large-sized loess pits("garden-pool vestiges"),sacrificial pits,jade-storing pits and large-sized ash-heaping areas,and the confirmation of the sandy soil line between the Huanhe River and the palace and ancestral temple quarter.On the western side of Foundation-A,selective excavation uncovered in small areas the rammed-earth foundations of four buildings,a well and dozens of ash-pits,which go back to the Longshan period to Yin-Ruins-I.These data furnished important material to the study of the layout of the Xiaotun palace and ancestral temple quarter.展开更多
文摘A quantity of jade zhang-knife (with a pointed tip) with characters in red on them were unearthed from the Shang tombs at Liujiazhuang village in Anyang in 1985. This paper makes a detail introduciton on the materials and discusses the calligraphy of the characters and the function of the zhang-knifes. It is believed that the characters in red are one of the three types of the calligraphy of the Shang Dynasty, the others are those of oracle bone incriptions and inscriptions on bronze vessels. It further believes that the brush writing is the foundation of the calligraphy. The Jade zhang-knife is both a ritual jade and a burial jade and is connected with the status of the tomb owner.
文摘Since the year of 1928,generations of archaeologists have carried out many times of large-scale excavation in the palace and ancestral temple quarter at Xiaotun,and the abundant achievements have provided key data for the judgment of the Yin Ruins as remains of the late Shang capital.But because this quarter as the core city is very great in size,the previous excavation covered only a small part of its,and a series of problems remain unsettled.In 2004 to 2005,in coordination with the application for the Yin Ruins to be included in the list of world cultural heritage,the Anyang Archaeological Team made an all-round prospecting in the area of the Yin Ruins Museum.In addition to resurveying and confirming the location and condition of previously known building-foundations,a lot of new discoveries were brought about through the work,such as the revelation of several dozen spots of rammed-earth foundations,large-sized loess pits("garden-pool vestiges"),sacrificial pits,jade-storing pits and large-sized ash-heaping areas,and the confirmation of the sandy soil line between the Huanhe River and the palace and ancestral temple quarter.On the western side of Foundation-A,selective excavation uncovered in small areas the rammed-earth foundations of four buildings,a well and dozens of ash-pits,which go back to the Longshan period to Yin-Ruins-I.These data furnished important material to the study of the layout of the Xiaotun palace and ancestral temple quarter.
